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Blog: Beware of Self-satisfaction
The recently successfully concluded Conference of Commonwealth Ministers of Education followed by the international conference on post secondary education organized by the Tertiary Education Commission this week came at the most appropriate time.
07 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: What makes Ramgoolam’s Leadership?
A country’s history is written everyday: but the tale of a nation’s march reaches critical heights on certain occasions. There are evolutions that emanate from the mass under the impulse of opinion leaders. In all the plots of the story of a nation’s progress there is one who acts as a protagonist.
07 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: What the System needs
Our education system has been the spinal cord of its success and survival. The only major reform that has taken place is the construction of some thirty or more secondary schools for the State and the regularization of private secondary schools. In other words the change has been only through the injection of millions of rupees into the system in order to bring about fairness, parity, and equitability.
31 Aug 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Robocop, Rambo, DPP and Judge
The former President of the Republic used the office of the presidency to forge an alliance with the MMM. State House was converted into SunTrust no.2 where Sir Anerood Jugnauth (SAJ) was meeting potential political allies and all this was being done with the complicity of the MMM of Paul Berenger. The institution of the presidency dimmed into contempt and insignificance. What mattered was power at any cost. The strategy aimed at was a debauchery of members of the government in the earnest hope that new elections would catapult the former president to the seat of prime minister with the …
31 Aug 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Let the Dialogue continue
Time and again the issue of separation of the link between religion, politics and the State surfaces. The latest being the address of priest Jean Claude Véder at the celebration of the St. Louis at the cathedral of Port Louis on Saturday 25th of August in the presence of the Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam, Paul Berenger Leader of the Opposition and the Lord Mayor of Port Louis Mamade Khodabaccus.
31 Aug 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Has Opinion become a Crime?
With the PMSD in government and with a pervasive notion of successful partnership with the Labour Party, it is obvious that the political leaders of the Creole community should feel blessed by power and capable of revealing their best once their potential is acknowledged and recognized, their people lionized and respected in elite circles.
23 Aug 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Freedom of Speech - A double edged Sword
The posting by Ms. Krishnee Bunwaree on Facebook messages or comments of an allegedly racial nature targeting a particular community and the article written by Mr. Darlmah Naeck have attracted diverse reactions, more emotional or even ethnic in nature than rational.
23 Aug 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: The Death of History
No minister has since the first curriculum renewal initiated by Parsuramen taken seriously the task of modernizing the curriculum. Obeegadoo used high sounding terms like ‘relevant, modern’ but he paid not the least iota of interest to the mechanics of curriculum development. Let it be understood that it is only when minister wills a change that change takes place.
17 Aug 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Strike – No Solution
After the political turmoil, the MMM-MSM remake being remade, government firmly saddled to comfortably govern the country till 2015, electoral reforms being postponed sine die, the age-old conflict between the workers of the sugar industry and the Mauritius Sugar Producers Association has come to the surface.
17 Aug 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Who will dare bell the Cat?
In a media article of 2/08/12 concerns were voiced about the judiciary allowing sitting judges and sitting magistrates to act as arbitrators where individuals resort to the procedure of arbitration instead of litigation that can be very protracted at times. It is an undeniable fact that sitting judges are very often chosen by parties to a dispute through lawyers representing these parties to act as arbitrators in these disputes and they are handsomely paid. Should that practice be allowed to subsist?
16 Aug 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Krishnee Bunwaree – governments allowed press to run amok
Following the arrest on 1st August 2012 of 22 year old Krishnee Bunwaree as a result of her anti-Islam and anti-Muslim comments on facebook during the holy fasting month of Ramadan and her being charged with the offence of unlawfully and knowingly using a computer system with intent to stir up « racial (and religious) hatred », successive governments of Mauritius should share the blame for having allowed a bias and prejudiced section of the press to run amok for over a decade in leading a damaging and incendiary campaign against Muslims and Islam without allowing any right of reply …
07 Aug 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: An apolitical Office of President occupied by a political beast?
The Office of President is supposed to be apolitical. What is this supposed to mean? It means that the person who occupies the post should neither do politics nor take sides in the politics of the country. Even though the law requires that before taking the presidential oath, the preselected candidate put forward and ‘elected’ in the Assembly should withdraw from the all instances of his (her) party, it does not mean that the president does not have preference for a particular political party and/or candidate. After all, the President has the right to vote.
20 Mar 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: The dirty Picture
Reference is not being made to the Bollywood movie with a gorgeous Vidya Balan dancing Ooh la la. Rather we mean the dirty picture from Jugnauthwood/Berengerwood. The nomination for the best actor is Paul Berenger and for best supporting actor Sir Anerood Jugnauth. The awards will be decided at election time by the electorate.
08 Mar 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Distorted Debate
I wish I heard it wrong. A participant in a radio debate on religion and politics said that politicians should be barred from speaking from religious platforms.
17 Feb 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Danger of Proportional Representation
Much of the never-ending debates on electoral reforms have centred on the Best Loser System (BLS) and Proportional Representation (PR). On BLS it is clear that the so-called minorities bear a deep distrust towards the majority community, the Hindus. The Muslims have pushed it as far as asking the Prime Minister to apologise for having used the word wine at the Yaum-um-Nabi celebration at Phoenix. If that is the trend then no cows should be slaughtered in localities where a majority of Hindus live. The Muslim community should be careful in their attitude because we are not in an Islamic …
17 Feb 2012, Le Matinal